UIColor Category to give it the ability to be created from a hex color as a NSString

uicolor+hex.h

#import "UIColor+Hex.h"
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UIColor (HexSupport)

// Provide the ability to generate UIColor from a Hex string value
+ (id)colorWithHex:(NSString *)hex;

@end

uicolor+hex.m

@implementation UIColor (HexSupport)


+ (id)colorWithHex:(NSString *)hex
{
	NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:hex];
	
	unsigned int convertedColor;
	[scanner scanHexInt:&convertedColor];
	
	float red = (float) ((convertedColor & 0xff0000) >> 16) / 255.0f;
	float green = (float) ((convertedColor & 0x00ff00) >> 8) / 255.0f;
	float blue = (float) ((convertedColor & 0x0000ff) >> 0) / 255.0f;

	return [UIColor colorWithRed:red green:green blue:blue alpha:1.0f];
}

@end